Using tcpdump input

[Andrew Pollock]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 09:35:55AM +1200, Russell Fulton wrote:
> > > 
> > > We used SSH, rsync and netcat to transfer a file of random contents being exactly
> > > 1GB in size (1024^3 bytes).
> 
> Hmmmm... are you sure that the compression options are off in ssh?

We also used (native) rsync and netcat. I would have expected particularly 
netcat would have been just the bytes of the file and nothing much more. 
The datafile it self was a gig of data from /dev/urandom, so I don't think 
it would have compressed terribly well.
 
> I'd be inclined to do this with ftp, the data connection should just
> transfer the bytes and nothing but the bytes of the original file.